His whole soul seemed darkly to brood over that distressing event, and to have undergone a change, as it were, from good to evil.

His brow lowered, his cheek got gaunt and haggard, and his eye hollow and wolfish with ferocity.

Neither did he make any great secret of his intention to execute vengeance on those who hurried his dying child out of life whilst in the very throes of dissolution.

He was never known, however, to name any names, nor to mark out any particular individual for revenge.

His denunciations were general, but fearful in their import.
The necessity, too, of deserting his wife and child sealed his ruin, which was not hard to do, as the man was at best but poor, or merely able, as it is termed, to live from hand to mouth.